Eyes of the world on Yealmpton

OK, maybe not, but there was a large crowd in the village this morning to welcome the Olympic torch. After a phalanx of police motorcyclists, the Coca-Cola truck, the Samsung truck, and the Lloyds TSB truck, the big moment came when Florine Savaria from Chevremont jogged past bearing that iconic symbol of great sport.

Even the most hardened of Olympics cynics, had they been there, would have been moved.